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Cotton Capitalists : American Jewish Entrepreneurship in the Reconstruction Era /
In the nineteenth century, Jewish merchants created a thriving niche economy in the United States' most important industry-cotton-positioning themselves at the forefront of expansion during the Reconstruction Era. Jewish success in the cotton industry was transformative for both Jewish communit...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2017]
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Maps
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The Antebellum Cotton Economy
- 2. The War Years
- 3. Timing Is Everything
- 4. Networks from Above
- 5. Networks from Below
- 6. The End of the Niche Economy
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author